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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS ACT
ACT
PART 1 PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
PART 2 REGISTRATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
3. Application for Registration and Contents of Application
4. Rights to File application and representation
5. Examination, opposition and registration
6. Right to use
7. Cancellation and rectification of registration and publication
8. Register and publication
9. Correction of errors and extension of time
10. Exercise of discretionary powers
11. Competence of Court and appeals
PART 3 PROTECTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
12. Civil proceedings
13. Availability of protection regardless of registration and presumption
14. Homonymous geographical indications for wines
15. Exclusion from protection
16. Offences and penalties
PART 4 SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING MARKS; EXCEPTIONS
17. Misleading marks
18. Marks conflicting with a geographical indication for wines and spirits
19. Exceptions regarding prior users
PART 5 REGULATIONS
20. Regulations
Schedule
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
Geographical Indications Regulations – Section 20 (Statutory Instruments 54/2003 and 144/2020)
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Fees
4. Forms
5. Applications – language of
6. Indication of name, address, nationality
7. Signature by Partnerships, Companies and Associations
8. Authorisation of agent
9. Applications – paper requirements
10. Application for registration of geographical indication
11. Withdrawal of application
12. Marking application
13. Objection to conditional acceptance of application
14. Refusal of application or conditional acceptance to which applicant objects
15. Acceptance of application
16. Opposition
17. Issuance of certificate
18. Publication of request for cancellation or rectification
19. Publication
20. Refusal or invalidation of registration of misleading marks
21. Refusal or invalidation of registration
22. Publication of invalidation of registration of mark
23. Address for service
24. Excluded days
25. Search of Register, files; request for extracts there from and for copies of documents
26. Entry of changes in the Register
27. Correction of errors
28. Extension of time
29. Hearing
30. Service by mail
31. Directions as to furnishing of documents
32. Correction of irregularities
33. Dispensation by the Registrar
34. (Revoked by S.I. 144/2020)
35. Evidence
36. Statutory declarations and affidavits
37. General
Schedule 1
Schedule 2